In Japan, pansy, carnation and sweet pea have become people's edible flowers. Cherry blossoms are not only the national flower of Japan that everyone loves, but also the table food for people's beauty and health care. People usually pick the blooming cherry blossoms together with their branches, soak them in salt and salty plum juice for a week, then dry them, mix them with salt and eat them in cans. It is said that this kind of pickled food is very sweet and delicious. In addition, the "cherry blossom soup" with cherry blossoms is a must-have drink for the wedding.
A flower food street in Paris, France is frequented by women who love beauty. What rose petal soup, rose dessert, dandelion soaked in water, everything, every restaurant has a thriving business, full of guests, more than a dozen restaurants are operating flowers-based food, it is understood that since its opening eight years ago, business has been very prosperous.
Flower food in the United States mainly appears in the form of set meals. The first meal is violet salad, the main course is tender dandelion or tender sage macaroni, and the dessert is fried cake made of rose cake and various petals, as well as rose petal soup. Americans often eat about forty or fifty kinds of flowers, among which violets are the most popular with chefs. Because of their various colors, they are colorful when serving, which is pleasing to the eye and drooling.
There are many kinds of edible flowers in China, and there are hundreds of varieties of edible flowers that have been developed, among which Cymbidium hybridum, Chrysanthemum, Rose, Osmanthus fragrans, Plum Blossom, Lotus, Jasmine, Lily, Magnolia grandiflora, Pear Blossom, Peach Blossom, Sophora japonica, Bauhinia, Cordate telosma and Camellia are all top grades. These petals can be used for cold salad, stir-frying, soup making and tea making, but they are usually used as condiments for other foods. For example, chrysanthemum can be fried or made into tea, or chopped and mixed into minced meat, minced fish or sugar stuffing. Chrysanthemum petals can also be scrambled eggs and baked tofu, which is delicious. The Flower Banquet is very popular in China, but popularity does not mean that it is a household name. Flower banquets have great market and development space. The main reason is that people's ideology and marketing have not been cultivated, and they lack chefs (diet nutrition, medical knowledge and artistic basic skills). The flower delicacies made now can only be said to be subconsciously made, just fiddling with some petals, which can't really reflect the nutrition and taste of flowers, such as the flower banquet in the mountain city and the flower banquet in Nanjing Lan Fu Palace. The flower banquet developed by Shandong Laizhou Flower Food Research and Development Institute is among the best in the industry, with good reputation and technical research and development strength. Looking at the development trend of catering industry, specialty catering is dominant, and the flower banquet will go to thousands of households step by step with the trend of the times, so that ordinary people can realize that flowers are not only ornamental but also edible, and let the flower banquet make the national fragrance float across nine continents, with a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending!